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The tricritical Ising CFT and conformal bootstrap

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-11 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The tricritical Ising CFT is the IR fixed-point of λϕ6\lambda\phi^6 theory. It can be seen as a one-parameter family of CFTs connecting between an ε\varepsilon-expansion near the upper critical dimension 3 and the exactly solved minimal model in d=2d=2. We review what is known about the tricritical Ising CFT, and study it with the numerical conformal bootstrap for various dimensions. Using a mixed system with three external operators {ϕσ,ϕ2ϵ,ϕ3σ}\{\phi\sim\sigma,\phi^2\sim \epsilon,\phi^3\sim\sigma'\}, we find three-dimensional "bootstrap islands" in d=2.75d=2.75 and d=2.5d=2.5 dimensions consistent with interpolations between the perturbative estimates and the 2d exact values. In d=2d=2 and d=2.25d=2.25 the setup is not strong enough to isolate the theory. This paper also contains a survey of the perturbative spectrum and a review of results from the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2501.18711,
  title  = {The tricritical Ising CFT and conformal bootstrap},
  author = {Johan Henriksson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.18711},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

49 pages, 19 figures. v2: version to appear in JHEP

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